"You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”
“To speak of â€˜limits to growthâ€™ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be â€˜persuadedâ€™ to limit growth than a human being can be â€˜persuadedâ€™ to stop breathing. Attempts to â€˜greenâ€™ capitalism, to make it â€˜ecologicalâ€™, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”
“To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, â€œI have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge”
“I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.”
“Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of values of the means of such samples, when these values are measured from the mean of the population in terms of the standard deviation of the sample... III. Tables are given by which it can be judged whether a series of experiments, however short, have given a result which conforms to any required standard of accuracy or whether it is necessary to continue the investigation.”
“The road does not always bring out the best in people.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.”
“You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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